it's finally available!

Sita Sings the Blues is finally free!
Posted by Cory Doctorow

After years of wrangling, Nina Paley's acclaimed, brilliant short film, Sita Sings the Blues is finally available as a free, open-licensed downloads. Paley spent a shocking amount of time and money fighting over the copyrights to the 1920s jazz music that is integral to the film (some have likened it to Betty Boop in Bollywood, which is catchy, but fails to capture the fantasticness of the film), Paley's finally secured a license that allows her to distribute the whole movie, for free, forever, under a remix-friendly license. .......

sita WILL sing the blues

on ny pbs (wnet) march 7th


Animated Ramayana to Air on PBS: 'Sita Sings the Blues'

I first learned about cartoonist Nina Paley's animated retelling of the Ramayana, a classic Indian myth (it's 3,000 years old), called "Sita Sings the Blues," through an Idol Chatter post by Aseem Chhabra who has a personal relationship to the film. I was reminded of the full length feature, by a recent New York Times article, "Hindu Goddess as Betty Boop? It's Personal" by Margy Rochlin, who brings us some happy news: "Sita Sings the Blues" will air on March 7th on PBS (WNET) in New York................



(ht: boing boing)